Quotes of the day

posted at 11:00 pm on March 12, 2012 by Allahpundit

“After reading and further researching, we were amazed that Fonda, Steinem and Morgan failed to condemn Maher for his hate speech against conservative and liberal women alike. In their piece, they write that their call to action ‘isn’t political.’ Giving them the benefit of doubt, we thought, they were perhaps unaware of Maher’s history of misogyny. But we were wrong.

“While we respect all women who stand up for their beliefs, we reject the hypocrisy that these ‘feminist icons’ try to slip past us. When will they put principle over politics and have the courage to condemn Maher’s misogyny? We applaud Wasserman Schultz for rejecting this sort of language as not ‘funny.’ We agree with President Obama that remarks such as these have ‘no place in the public discourse.’ We ask others including Sen. Chuck Schumer and Obama super PAC co-founder Bill Burton to reject Maher’s donation of $1 million to support the president’s re-election.”

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“No longer is it good enough to disagree with conservatives. They must be fired from their jobs, separated from their advertisers, booted from the airwaves, buried under a prehistoric rock. The tactics attributed to Joe McCarthy tied to the polemical rigor associated with Jenny McCarthy…

“There are also honorable exceptions to the liberal purges. ‘As we all know, Limbaugh’s First Amendment rights aren’t involved here — freedom of speech means freedom from interference by the government,’ writes the veteran columnist Michael Kinsley, referring only to the boycotts. ‘But the spirit of the First Amendment, which is that suppressing speech is bad, still applies.’

“Networks can hire who they want. Advertisers can spend their money as they choose. But there is something unsavory about these organized boycotts and politically motivated pressure tactics. There is something much worse about the government deciding which speech is in the public interest.”

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“The three then exhibit a staggering lack of self-awareness by claiming that Rush Limbaugh seeks to ‘dehumanize’ people. Um. Did Gloria Steinem forget that she called housewives ‘dependent creatures who are still children’ and ‘parasites’? That is the Left’s standard operating procedure. That is what they do, always, and especially with regard to women. This has been proven over and over again and only the willfully ignorant can’t see it. This is followed by the pièce de résistance of the op-ed — they equate Rush with Josef Goebbels. No, for reals. While fascistically demanding that The State’s FCC shut down Rush Limbaugh. While seeking to silence those with whom they disagree – using hysterical lies and propagandist rhetoric – they Godwin themselves with Goebbels. Irony is lost on these geniuses.

“They ended with the most hilarious line of all when they claimed ‘this is not political’. Of course it is. Everything they do is political. Perhaps Robin Morgan forgot that she said ‘I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.’ She also said ‘Kill your fathers, not your mothers’ – yeah, no ‘issues’ there. And Feminism itself is not about women at all; it’s about serving a political ideology and agenda always. What they fail to realize, being too busy beclowning themselves constantly, is that they are subjugators of women. They are being used – willingly, no less – to help oppress and infantilize women, making them subservient to The State and Big Daddy Government.”

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“The liberal instinct to attack conservative voices on the radio rather than promote liberal alternatives mirrors the left’s approach to the economy in general. The president of the United States and his apologists insist on raising taxes for the rich as a top priority without explaining how those additional burdens on the most productive are supposed to help the poor and the working class in their struggles. Since Obama acceded to the nation’s highest office, the percentage of Americans in dire poverty has sharply increased, and the unemployment rate for blacks remains stuck at 14.1 percent – nearly twice that for whites (7.3 percent). Democrats make no real attempt to show that raising tax rates on the prosperous will change this situation for the better (especially since higher rates generally produce more tax avoidance, not more revenue), but they do suggest that punishing the rich might at least make the downtrodden feel less oppressed.

“The logic seems to suggest that since we’re suffering at the moment then at least we can make you suffer too; we may not be able to help the poor but we can certainly hurt the rich.

“Rather than swallow their ideological pride for a moment, too many liberals, including more than a few leading feminists, have dug in like the Vatican and refused to acknowledge that their side too can be wrong or unfair. Or, as in the case of Maher, who just gave $1 million to a super PAC backing President Obama, as boorish as Limbaugh…

“We in the mainstream media too rarely point out that double standard, but Allred’s retro-hypocrisy – which is about the First Amendment — is too hard to ignore. The obscure Florida defamation code she wants prosecutors to use on Limbaugh is one of those musty statutes that sit forgotten in every state’s penal attic. But to demand in the year 2012 that we criminally prosecute anyone for this kind of speech is disturbing, especially so to correspondents like me who have been chronicling the recent comeback of criminal defamation laws in Latin America. Limbaugh apologized for slandering Fluke; now Allred should apologize for promoting the legal philosophy of Hugo Chávez.”

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They know the ones of us that are generally here. They might not read every comment. But they do read a lot. Besides I bet he dosen’t even email you or Peterman because he came on the thread to tell you. He wants us all to know. I think angrymike is right she emailed a complaint.

That’s why this is a poor crop of trolls. From a regular’s standpoint. They are told to come in and incite hoping to cause trouble. I guarantee there are screenshots out there. But here, the only ones making racist or severely derogatory bannable comments are the trolls.
Simplesimon (Kenin) and narutoboy are two that come to mind. Way over the top.

not just ‘haha i disagree with you scumbag’, but real deep down pig fu4king a$$hole scumbags.

go brietbart yourselves.

freshface on March 13, 2012 at 12:41 AM

I really don’t know what’s more appalling — the spelling and grammar or the profanity. Probably just the fact that you are a loathesome troll who has nothing better to do with his time than browse Manhunt and come here trying to bother people.

I remember, but that was different. It’s not like you had a FB account with all kinds of photos of yourself at work or something. I’m pretty open about myself because a)I have nothing to hide and b)we’re heavily armed here but I don’t have photos of myself or my family all over the internet.

Sometime during the Clinton era I was sent a glossy 8×10 of Reagan on a white horse at his ranch. I love that pic and it is framed on my fireplace. My son wants it for his oil company office but I am afraid someone would steal it. He can have it when he gets a house.

Mr. Reagan was only human as we all are but he sure was up there and I feel fortunate to have lived and voted for him and shook his hand in 1976 as a rookie cop.

And strangely enough, I viewed that FB page and suddenly I had a important email from a Nigerian barrister informing of the 1.7 million American dollars he is holding for me. I haven’t had one of those make it into my email for a long time.

Sometime during the Clinton era I was sent a glossy 8×10 of Reagan on a white horse at his ranch. I love that pic and it is framed on my fireplace. My son wants it for his oil company office but I am afraid someone would steal it. He can have it when he gets a house.

Mr. Reagan was only human as we all are but he sure was up there and I feel fortunate to have lived and voted for him and shook his hand in 1976 as a rookie cop.

arnold ziffel on March 13, 2012 at 2:01 AM

Any place that does photo prints could make your son a high quality copy of it — mat and frame it and you could both enjoy it!

I don’t have a problem with Buy Danish. He/she fights fair with facts most of the time.

JPeterman on March 13, 2012 at 1:04 AM

She is a she. I have to agree with you. Not bad, just not as conservative as myself. I don’t like her when she starts in on Palin though. There are people on HA that we just disagree with but they are decent people. Trolls just exist to be nasty.

Yeah, maybe. HeII I still haven’t taken the time to learn how to make the links into words. : ) I was thinking about turning my moniker into a link to a site. I have a lot of stuff I would like uploaded to a site. Stuff I think folks might enjoy without it giving away too much. We shall see. This commenting thing was a huge deal for me.

I am in awe. Every night you guys have excellent music choices. how do you find some of this stuff.

Cyn can you remember the other night you had a clip from kind of a goofy guy (that I said looked like a talented version of KeninCT). I liked it and didn’t think to favorite it. Do you know what I’m talking about?